ray643•4h ago

Food prompts are always magic chefs and it's boring

Every writing prompt about food is just another magical chef story. Can we try something new, like a normal person dealing with a bad restaurant job?

7 comments

7 Comments

hunt.wesley4h ago

Agree SO hard, magic chef stories are so overdone. I worked at this awful pizza place, the drama there was UNREAL. Normal job stories are way more interesting.

lewis.charlie4h ago

I used to love those magic chef books, but my last job had a ten page report over missing printer paper. Maybe it's just me but that kind of petty mess hits way harder now.

dylanr514h ago

My buddy's old workplace had a full-blown crisis over the communal coffee fund, which somehow involved secret spreadsheets and accusations of theft. (Seriously, it was like a spy movie but with loose change.) That yogurt war @the_laura described sounds exactly like the same brand of insane office logic. They even held a mandatory meeting about being honest, all over maybe ten bucks in missing quarters. Real job pettiness just hits different because it's so painfully true to life.

jennifer40348m ago

That "secret spreadsheets" detail gets me. Why do you think petty office stuff always escalates into these weird spy missions instead of someone just saying "hey, don't take the yogurt"? It's like the smallness of the crime demands an over-the-top response to feel important. Maybe it's the only bit of drama people can actually control.

the_laura4h ago

Ugh yes, my friend's office had a full meltdown because someone kept stealing yogurts from the break room fridge. They made photocopied wanted posters, it was a whole thing. Way better than any wizard duel.

morganwood4h ago

Just the worst petty stuff becomes this huge deal. I saw a guy get written up for taking home a single breadstick once, management acted like he robbed a bank. The_laura's yogurt war sounds exactly like that, office pettiness hits different because it's real. Give me a manager losing their mind over cheese inventory over a magic spell any day. That fake drama feels lazy when real jobs are already so unhinged.

blair_owens1h ago

Magic chef books offer a welcome escape from boring real-world office drama.